Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Doris Warner, recorded singing in her home in Ascott-under-Wychwood. Mrs. Warner announces the title of each song before singing it. She sings 'Jockey to the Fair', 'Come Lasses and Lads', 'Joan to the Maypole', 'Poor Old Horse', 'Early One Morning', 'Blow Away the Morning Dew', 'Sweet Nightingale', 'Pretty Polly Oliver', 'High Germany', 'Barbara Allen', 'Saucy Sailor', 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'Seventeen Come Sunday', 'Strawberry Fair', 'The Simple Ploughboy', 'The Jolly Waggoner', 'Raggle-Taggle Gypsies', 'Nancy's Fancy', 'Randall My Son', 'The Outlandish Knight', 'Lord Bateman' [incomplete], 'O No John', 'Jimmy the Carter's Lad' [fragment]; 'Needle Cases' [fragment]; gives words to the dance tune 'The Triumph', played on Club days; anecdotes about Naomi Honeybone and Ascott vicarage ghost; sings 'The Oxfordshire Tragedy' and 'Fair are the Flowers in the Valley'; relates the story of Lord Lovell and Lady Nancy [part spoken, part sung]; sings 'Undaunted Mary' [part], 'Banks of the Sweet Dundee' and 'Newcastle' [to the tune of the square dance of the same name]. [Tr. 2] George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton, sings 'The Nightingale', 'The Four-Posted Bedstead' [incomplete], 'The Old Woman of Derby' ( 'Cock-a-Doodle'), 'Farmer's Boy' [incomplete], 'White Wings' [fragment], 'Goodbye Dolly Grey' [fragment], [ 'Little Wooden Hut'], 'The Old Bull and Bush', 'Just like the Ivy' [fragment], 'I'll Be Your Sweetheart', 'Boiled Beef and Carrots', 'The Gilded Cage', 'The Flag of Old England' [chorus], an unidentified hunting song [chorus and one verse], 'Sea Sea Sea' [chorus], 'Hearts of Oak' [chorus], 'The Roses Round the Door' [fragment], 'Won't You Buy My Pretty Flowers?' [incomplete], 'Miner's Dream of Home' [incomplete], 'Bill Bailey' [incomplete], [ 'The What-Not'], 'Just like the Ivy'; discussion of where and when (pre-World War Two) the songs were sung; the decline of singing; changes in the village; working life and mechanisation; depopulation; village singers; Adderbury Church choir; morris dancing at Headington; sings 'Sail Away'; talks about hawking songs on printed sheets at fairs; sings 'Sweet Rosie O' Grady' [chorus], [unidentified], 'Swinging Down the Lane' [incomplete], 'Watercress Girl', 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Beautiful Picture', 'Sail Ahoy', 'Dorothy Dean' [fragment], 'Put Me Amongst the Girls', 'Irish Molly' and 'I Come From the Country'. [Tr. 1]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A477r. 1 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	tx2y3jb9
IRN	414527
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A476r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tx2y3jb9
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Baldwin, John R
Date	1966
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 123' 31".

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